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KuraFire · #10 01-19-2004, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by princeton

An example of redundancy ...
adding a "journal"
adding a "reviews"
adding a "news system"
... they all use the same fields so, why create a new table/queries? Presentation of data is the only thing that is different.

Before you say "there are more fields in reviews" ... I will say add them to an existing table. Utilize what vb has then add if needed.

Not entirely true. In some cases, when you keep things basic, a journal, a review and a news system may all indeed present this data structure:

- title
- text
- optional conclusion
- optional icon/image to go with it

But from the start, a Journal is taken care of entirely differently. The way to present the data is not just different in HTML but also in queries that fetch the data. Plus, there's generally different things you want in such systems, and just doing it via a field-management system won't always cut it, by far.

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